Arna Beth
Contact & Links
arnabeths@gmail.com
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Selected Works



    Arna Beth (b. 1997) is an Icelandic / American multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working with the assemblage of digital media, speculative futures, and cultural critique of the postmodern. Her practice spans 3D fabrication such as sculpture and animation, performance, sound, and recombinant material processes. 

    Through frameworks of critical theory kin to xenofeminism, dromology and necropolitics, Arna constructs immersive, non-linear narratives, attempting to destabilize a dromocratic present.

    Self-composed sound, fabrication, and embodied performance mark an evolution toward more immersive, bodydriven work. Collaborations with curators and technologists continue to refine her spatial and political praxis, weaponizing aesthetics against the systems they mirror.

    She has performed and exhibited at:
    Boundary Condition at St. Garlickhythe Church (LDN) 2025.
    Manifest: IO at Goldsmiths (LDN) 2025.
    Club Are (LDN) 2023, 2025.
    Metamorphika (LDN) 2024.
    SÍM Residency + UKAI Projects at Korpúlfsstaðir (ICE) 2024
    Lewisham Art House (LDN) 2023
    Iklectik Art Lab (LDN) 2023
    Hafnarborg – the Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art (ICE) 2023.
    X3 Amsterdam (NL) 2022.
    Akademie der Künste in Berlin (DE) 2022
    Festival of Lights (ICE) 2020
    Decoratelier in Brussels (BE) 2019
    Lunga Festival (ICE) 2019
    Sónar Reykjavík (ICE) 2018


     HAAR & Arna Beth - CHASM & Manifest:IO

    4. April 2025 & 12. April 2025



    The experimental drone duo HAAR, longtime collaborators Gisou Golshani and Winter, invited me to craft a visual experience for their event CHASM, held at the Old Church in Stoke Newington. Their work channels sonic landscapes of grief and folk mythology, unfolding against the backdrop of mass genocide. Through heavy drone textures, extended vocal techniques, and field recordings, they weave a tapestry of hauntology, an echo of lost futures.

    Together, we explored ways to translate this mourning into visual language. HAAR shared 3D scans captured in Wales during their album recordings, which became the foundation of the project. I transformed their sonic world into an immersive environment, stitched together from collected artifacts, 3D scans of their Old Church installations, and sculptures evoking a primordial, prehistoric presence.

    The animations created for CHASM focused on silhouettes, the interplay of light and shadow, and desaturated textures. Using Nomad Sculpt on the iPad, I rendered their 3D scans into haunting, tactile forms—fragments of a fractured mythos, suspended between decay and rebirth.